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  • Alundra and Skies of Arcadia. Best Games Ever!

  • classic game love it

  • me freaking gusta

  • Quit hating on Zelda. Doesn't make you sound like you have a better taste in games. Just a dumbfuck on youtube. lmao. Severe lack of taste is when you say that Legend of Zelda is not fun or is for kids. If thats true, then no adult would have ever owned a NES or an SNES in the 80s and 90s.

    Alundra is one of my favorite WD games of all time. Its a dark game and you gotta love(or love to hate) that everyone you try to save dies in the beginning and you are seen as the 'cause for all the trouble.

  • @ThePianoPhenomenon Don't take their comments to heart, but don't reply in kind either. I love Zelda, but I also love Alundra.

  • i love this game is the best of me !!!!!!!! zelda is noob Alundra is good !!!!!!

  • Holy shit.

  • coooool

  • What a dumb dumb dumb ass, this Guy is(xelph) ..he thinks this game stole the music from halo..lol lol lmfao..fukn idiot..somebody tell him why that's impossible ..lol please!!this has the shittiest taste ever..lol

  • LOLOLOLOL this game suuuuuux! Dey stole da musics from HALOOO!!! Gaystaion and Failtendo copied Xbooooox! LOLOLOLlol... lol... and uh... other blatantly fanboyish stuff... and uh... aw hell! I'm sorry, I can't do it. It's like making fun of the mentally handicapped... it's just in poor taste.

  • @Xelpherpolis TROLL ALERT TROLL ALERT

  • this game was fucking awesome although i can see how it was treated as a zelda clone but thats horse shit hahaha zelda is a panzy ass game compared to this one i honestly thought this one had a better plot,gameplay, and was far more difficult... i still own the game today it works and everything along with my fav game final fantasy 7 i have both original copies they are epic

  • This game is my earliest memory! My brother played it when i was 5 or something. Been wondering from time to time what game have a guy with a chestplate and a BIG tree with gorillas or something. Feels weird finding this game..

  • Another great title brought to our shores thanks to the great Working Designs. May they never die-they are in my heart!

  • one of the best and hardest games i have ever played untill now it was great the dream sequences and so on teh whole game play everything and much more brutal that zelda ( zelda is great of course but it is more kiddy like to be ohnes but great ) Alundra is a game for adults and kids i am soo sad that i have sold my PS1 and lost Alundra maybe i will buy it on ebay ^^ and restart that great awesome game

  • Yeah, I played a lot in the past - but most of the time I´ve spent by playing Alundra!!!

  • the first time i heard of this game was when i saw the disk in my PS1. my mom had been playing it (i dont know why) and i played it. i liked it but i keeped dieing but that was when i was 8. now im 17 and i know how to be more smart with a game like this.

  • Zelda is for kids :O

    needs brains for this

  • timeless classic. it hasnt aged at all.. I would much rather play Alundra than most of the cover based shit being regurgitated nowadays.

  • i jerk off to this game!!!

  • ALUNDRA.... CLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSII­IICC

    and FYI its not like zelda is the only elf in the whole world o.o GOD! what would you say about other games like warcraft and dragon age -_-

  • @lad2100 True, it's an Action-Adventure, just because Zelda was one of the first successful franchises in this genre, people keep calling others in that Genre a "Zelda-clone", it's like calling racing games "Gran Turismo clones" or anything where you hit things "God of War clones". It's a huge pet-peeve of mine.

  • @galenloire yea thats true, and it is also true that people who make games get ideas from other games but its not copying or ripping off its just making a game with different ideas in one to see how it goes like minecraft was based off infinite miner

  • It's much rather a clone of the game LANDSTALKER for SEGA Genesis than everything else.

    I also loved Alundra. It was one of the best games for the PS1 in my opinion.

  • first game i ever beat. i was four year old. Best fucking time of my life.

  • There were only the four Zelda games when Alundra had been released, and there was a four-year gap between Alundra and LttP. Those Zelda games had formulaic, grid-like dungeons (with the exception of the side-scrolling of Link's Adventure) and predictable puzzles and themes. Alundra, though categorized as action/adventure, was just as close to being a platforming game as it was A/A. Alundra innovated, and Zelda continued(s) to improve upon its' own style with each game, but they are separate.

  • i found alundra way better than Any zelda, even though i liked a link to the past. alundra's atmosphere is just as good as it gets

  • This wasn't a Zelda clone... it's more that games within this genre tend to be very similar as a whole.

    Also... BEST GAME EVER <3

  • This game was seriously underrated, loved it. I remember it being a major challenge later on

  • pause at 2:21 Alundra Looks So Sad

  • this game was hard as rocks

  • I never actually got this game, but I got a demo disc with this video on it. I never got to play it, but I always thought 'damn, this game has the best theme song'

  • what a game, it's such a pleasure to play it again 13 years later on my psp.

    the anime scenes in the intro really seem to be taken from an animated serie, that's just weird...

  • Alundra seems like so much fun and shows promise. But my brother scratched the disk so much that I never got to play it. Darn thing keeps freezing.

  • A blatant Zelda clone, but one hell of a clone at that. I loved this game so much that it pains me to this day that my brother traded it with a friend for Super Street Fighter on the SNES before I could complete it. I'll have to get it again sometime.

    Still have Alundra 2 but it's not the same. It's fun and all, but I want a true Alundra sequel.

  • @Catkeeper Not everything is a Zelda clone though, they didn't suddenly change the genre from 'Action-Adventure' into 'Zelda'. Sometimes I get the feeling that people look at this entire genre of games and just see Zelda.

  • @galenloire I know, but A Link to the Past was pretty much the peak of the genre for many, and defined the genre overall. Plus Alundra featured similar tools and puzzles, similar protaganist (silent elf guy), and was generally considered at the time to be the Playstation's answer to Nintendo's classic.

    Don't get me wrong though, it's not a rip off like the Gianna Sisters were to Mario, and is still a classic master of the genre, and there's nothing wrong with it being like Zelda at all.

  • @galenloire If we're going to call it a clone, I'd say it followed more in the footsteps of Landstalker.

  • @Catkeeper Can't be a Zelda clone, Link does not know the meaning of the word 'jump'. :P

  • @shadesofbluee Hah, true!

  • @shadesofbluee likewise, Link has yet to figure out how to open a door without breaking the #$!@% key....-_-

  • @shadesofbluee actually he does, after you got a feather

    not in every zelda games though

  • @VicRattlehead72 I actually forgot about the Gameboy titles. :p

  • @Catkeeper It's available on the Playstation store for $6.

  • @Blackwater1 Sadly not here in Pal territories. :/

    I should set up a US account, get myself some sweet Parasite Eve action.

  • badass game, badass soundtrack

  • The only part that freaked me out was the nightmare music.

  • This intro is just amazingly epic. I could watch it all day...

  • @BJ00ZM I loved them both. #2 may have been better in terms of minigames while I better liked the story and more mature and mysterious feeling of #1

  • Amazing game, definitely one of my favorite PS1 games, and definitely very under-appreciated. Tip for anyone who wants to play it again: it's available on PSN (or will be, once they get PSN back online, but that's a different story), so if you have a PS3 or PSP you can download it for like 6 bucks. 6 bucks is an absolute steal for this game.

  • @BJ00ZM Thank you. :)

  • Underestimated game, and very difficult.

  • @Blaiwnez Underrated as well. Many good PS1 games were.

  • This was the first game I ever saw (when I was about 4-6(?) (Don't remember excact age). I am soon 18 and I still wish that one day I could get this game a play it through like my brother did. If anyone could have any tips for making this dream happen, please help. Any help will do. D: (As usual, brother isn't helping at all)

  • I remember watching my Grandad complete this in a breeze. My Grandad is awesome!

  • Alundra always been and always will be for me the best RPG of all time! Then it's "Chrono Cross"! Throw the two! xD

  • Luv this intro and game, true RPG masterpiece with influencial, inspirating story!

  • I got it for my birthday... Back when you used to buy a game because of the way it looked, not because of what some shitty website said about it... I always got stuck, left it for a month or two, restarted it and got further than the last time and then got stuck and left it again, it became a bit of a cycle, hahaha.

  • @shorien My thoughts exactly. i was stuck on lars crypt for months,(i was grounded for a month or two of that) and finally got access to dial up internet then i printed a 100 pg walkthrough. took me the bones of a childhood year to finish. this was 12 years ago.

    best game ever.

  • I remember getting this game when I was around 9 or 10... This is emotional for me haha... :')

  • I really want this game. I heard its on the PSN store in US but its not on the PSN store in europe ;<

  • @rirkla it's cause we're still pissed off with you guys about hitler.

    nah, jk bro. your publishing laws just suck.

  • Does this game involve some type of dream. . . thing in its plot?

    I remember hearing about a Zelda like game but had more serious/darker moments. I looked for it and found the title, then looked for a physical copy and it was like 30 bucks (this is back when I was a scrub)

    This may be it. . . *goes off to look for a physical copy

    9 MOTHER LUBBING DOLLARS!?!? JAYZUS!!!

  • this game use to scare me

  • I used to love this game. And I always thought Alundra was so cute/brave.. *sigh* I was the only girl I knew who played these types of games.. I loved them XD

  • @rubeejsgrimes D; Nuuu, your not the only girl who loved these types of games i played it alll the time when i was little. :3 I've just rebought the game along with Digimon world one and Alone in the dark. :D!

  • @MisssMeliee Awesome. >:3

  • Hey, didn't Working Designs work on Lunar?

  • @AkumaUchitoru They made Lunar: Silver Star Story and Lunar: Eternal Blue. They also made a good Strategy RPG called Vanguard Bandits.

  • @galenloire

    Yay. that's what I thought. :D I never heard of Vanguard Bandits though.

    By the way, what game do you like more, the first Lunar or the second one? Also, don't you really want a third Lunar?

  • Yay! :D Games with openings tend to be the best. Wild Arms, Dark Cloud, Legend of Mana, Dark Cloud, etc. I haven't played this though.

  • This was the first RPG I had for PS1, plays a lot like Zelda only the dungeons are 10x harder and the boss battles were epic except for the last one which I beat with ease. Im gonna download this and Xenogears to my PSP right now

  • im playin this game again right now. i'd love to learn the bassline to this song.

  • is this game good? because i played the second one and really like it could someone rate it out ten for me because i think im going to buy it.

  • @hayesman24 The first one is waaaaaay better than the second one! No comparance. I finished the first game and loved it, and didn't even want to finish the second when I started it ...

  • @MsCandycorn I had played a fair ways into the second one, and although it isn't the same game in most aspects, it was still fairly enjoyable compared to other games.

  • @galenloire Ok, I guess. These days I don't have much time to play games, so it have to be pretty good to keep my attention... Before when I was little I only had a few games, so I really had to spend time with them. Now the games need to impress me, and I guess Alundra 2 didn't. Mainly I was dissappointed by the fact that it wasn't Alundra we played at all!! And the game wasn't even similar. A sequel should be a real sequel, and Alundra 2 sucked at that... But I would give Alundra 1 a 10/10! :)

  • I PLAYED THIS GAME WHEN I WAS 11 ALL BY MYSELF,BUT I GOT STUCK ON LAKE PALACE AND I GOT MY DAD TO HELP ME OUT IN THE GAME (HE ALREADY FINISHED THE GAME BEFORE XD).

    HE SAID TO ME THAT HE WAS PROUD THAT I COULD UNDERSTAND THE GAME SO FAR AND FOLLOW ALL THE INSTRUCTIONS,DIALOGS THIS GAME HAS .

    TAKE IN CONSIDERATION I WAS 11 AND I AM MEXICAN XD

    I AM DOING PRETTY WELL IN ENGLISH THANKS TO ZELDA,FF & CHRONO TRIGGER SINCE I WAS 9 SO THANKS A LOT VIDEO GAMES XD

  • @SAMUS1988

    Wow, that's great dude! Your English is great too, just try not to have everything capitalized, it's a little weird. ^^;

  • 3 people couldn't figure out they needed to jump on the engine in the mines to get it running and pressed the dislike button.

  • @TheJackpot81 LOL

  • the animation and music are very dragon ball

  • @leif011 you are right.

    The creator of Alundras music did infact create music for Dragon ball also =)

  • @Retrocomet You serious? That's awesome!

  • ah yes alundra how i loved this game , man i remember getting it by mistake from my brother he thought it was a zelda game loool and man it was just as good as zelda ,

    thx bro for your mistake i played an excellent game ^_^

  • Beyond Oasis ripoff right there

  • One of the best puzzle action RPG's ever. Very underated thow...

  • This was such a great game! the vid brings back fond memories

  • i have got to play this now

  • @xchrisx135 Indeed. It's in my Buying List... a huge freakin' list.... I hope I can put a dent in it! D:

  • Is there an Alundra anime?

  • @alxdjo1 I don't believe there is.

  • @galenloire i wish was

  • which boss in this was the one that sucked you up and ate you if you got to close to it? i do remember snow...and when i think it was boxes that fell on people and trapped them or was it ice?...ill never know

  • @Quiz1master5 It's called the "Soul Leech". It's introduced the first time in Kline's Nightmare. That's the snowy place. It appears another time in Giles Dream.

  • anyone think that these old games are better than some of the current games?

  • @Richxx105 They sacrifice gameplay for graphics and gimmicks.

  • @galenloire While I agree alot of the newer games today suck becareful not to mistake nostalgia for quality.

  • @Snakebite105 I'm not blind to the work people do on games today, I do have a lot of favorites on the PS2 and 360, and I like graphics as much as the next guy, but I'm not blind to the need for decent graphics, controls, gameplay, and characters as well as story-line. This mostly applies to RPGs and Adventure games, which are my favorite genres, but a certain degree of effort is needed in order for a game to be replayable and/or memorable. Take it for what you will.

  • is alundra 2 a sequel? or totally different story?

  • @Megadeth72 Alundra is a seperate story, where your character is a feared Pirate Hunter. That's known at the beginning so I didn't spoil anything. :3

  • @galenloire well, I actually played both games but I didnt finish alundra 2, only play it about 15% and I stopped so I'm curious whether there's a connection with alundra 1 later in the game or not but I guess not then :D

    I prefer alundra one gameplay anyday, the puzzle is hard as hell

  • Love this game. Fav game of all time. Miles better than Zelda and Final Fantasy.

  • @MaverickHero6 Working Designs has made some fantastic games, like the Lunar games, and the Strategy RPG called Vanguard Bandits.

  • Clearly one of my fav games every. Was a damn hard puzzle game for sure.

  • i remember this game was the only one that survived my house getting burned,its a shame about the house but this game was so good i actually felt relieved after founding it was still working in my burned ps1 (thats quality for you XD)

  • Without a doubt one of the greatest Action RPG's of all time

  • This song is so different to the others... Why?? They should have used some other Instruments :-|

  • I remember this, was such a badass game

  • such good memories

    i have this game since it s release date to this day actually XD

    i will never let go of it

    one of the best games ever

  • Pretty strange that they didn't include this song and the Title Theme to soundtrack at all. Like, why?

  • Perhaps they merely wanted to focus on the in-game music for the soundtrack?

  • @galenloire

    Maybe. But that is still kind of weak since they're both pretty good songs. And some of the finest soundtracks include even some radio commercials, we don't need to hear those kinds of extras, but it's a big plus.

    And these two are the first songs that you hear in this game and they set you to the correct mood and after this you're just thinking: "Oh boy, if the intro parts are this cool, then I just can't wait to see the game itself!".

  • It's hard to comprehend the mind-set of game companies. Look at Square Enix; two fan-made Chrono Trigger games were being made, and instead of endorsing them, thus making money hand-over-fist and pleasing the fans, they dished out Cease and Desist orders.

  • @galenloire Square Enix hate money. That's why they made FF13.

  • @Zantetsudex I haven't tried that game yet. I hear it takes hours before you get to real gameplay.

  • Such an awesome opening! Anime, gameplay and epic music. Good job on posting!

  • Now I know the antecessor of golden sun, is alundra!!! xDDD

  • Fantastic music, there is simply no other way to put it!^^!

  • omg this was soooooooo great game. hope i could find it somewhere:'(

  • Childhood memories :)

  • Anybody know the name of this song? x_x

  • You could look for the soundtrack on Blue Laguna.

  • Thanks, its at BlueLaguna ;)

  • What's the title of this song?

    It's not like the IronMaiden song "Powersalve"? (the main Riff)

  • @TheVirtualValley I'm about to say it :p

  • Alundraaaa!!! *¬*

  • hehe when i was little (around 3 years old) i wanted to play the game but i never got farther then the boat x3 heee.. i was soooo stupid :p nice vid !!

  • Love this game!!! There were a lot of creepy parts in the game that would spook me when I was a kid:o Like people being abducted from the villages, with the creepy music to back it up!

  • Awesome! Faved <3

  • now this is a challenging game ive lost sooo many hours playing it being stuck on puzzels its truely a great game

  • Alundra forever, will always love. Thanks for putting this up.

  • No problem. :3

  • best game eveeer i have 3 copies of that game and maybe in some time 4 ^^ i need so much copies of that!! its that worth!!

  • I have 2 (yes 2) copies of Alundra.

    granted one is slightly scuffed in the middle on the top (8 years of playing will do that)

    I just think its an uber game...

  • Wow... You sir, are a god amongst men.

  • Nah.

    I am just lucky to have got a 2nd copy.

    I am keeping both though...

  • Good choice. >:3

  • You cant have galen, it wont work on your console any road, as I am an EU player :p

  • ;-; It just means I'll have to get a copy from around here. x3 I still need to print out the case-art for my copy of Grandia; it came in one of those dull-plastic cases from a rental store, but it was cheaper for it. Manual came with it though; I just need to print out the cover art and whatnot that I managed to find and I should be good to go; I bought a 5$ sports game that was in a multi-disc case and switched them up. x3

  • Cover Art = google.

    Otherwise, yeah, I feel you.

    I get games like that sometimes...

  • I already have the art thankyouverymuch. x3

  • yeah! thats the best game ever....i was a very zelda fan but alundra is a little better ! because of the very nice story!

  • One of the best game ever mad! PURE LOVE!!!

  • man I wish games were still made like this today. Seriously what the hell are game designers thinking today.

  • They're thinking:

    "What? The masses think video games are cool now? Quick! Make crap that is interesting to the non-gamers and gramers so that we can rake in more cash!"

  • If anyone is stuck watch my walkthroughs trust me they will help

  • Sweet. I do Let's Plays as well. ^^ Lufia 2 at the moment.

  • ANIME IS AWESOME SHUT UP

  • I totally love this intro, I totally love the music and I totally love the game!! :D

  • The only thing I didn't like about this game is the anime style intro and ending. It just doesn't go with the art style of the game, and most of the characters and villians look much better during actual gameplay.

    I also don't like the whole 'rock' music playing during this intro. It didn't suit the game.

    Fantastic game, though.

  • I found that a little funny, but only because those are some of the reasons that people really love this game, because it was rare for any game, even on the Playstation, to have well-animated cut scenes like this. :3

  • Hää? what are you talking? the intro and the ending intro are very fantastic!! This GAME is the best game i ever played!!

  • I didn't say they were bad, they just didn't suit the 'dark' theme of the game.

  • Hey the ANIME of the game was kick ass the intro just makes you want to play the game more.

  • yeh i wanna know if this song has a name and where i can get a tab

  • good story and fun to play

    ne of the best ps1 games of all time

  • Yup, one of the rare platformers, and from the legendary Working Designs, makers of Lunar: Silver Star Story as well as Vanguard Bandits. ;3

  • One of the greatest games of all time!

  • @sw0rd0fadvers1ty I agree, the puzzles in this are just amazing! very creative!

  • Are there any guitar tabs for this song?

  • this game is sooooo cool

    but i never got stucked in a game so many times as in this one

  • yes im too :D

  • i loved this game!!

  • rpg games kick ass

  • T____T!! alundra !! AWW too many memories ;(

  • I won't say it's better than Zelda ALTTP but it's definitely harder...I never finished it, but I think I was near...I was in palace where Melzemos (main villain) or something like that(forgot the name correctly, it was a long time ago) and there was a riddle; ''King and his subjects'' and 6 or 8 pots in the middle room, that would lite whenever I solved one riddle...so I was wondering...Is ending near? Loved the game!

  • THE BEST GAME EVER ;O i miss it :( sold my PS1 for 2 years ago. i want to play it agen ;)

  • one word for you : emulator!

  • @konli4 me too lorrrr, sold the PS1 already.

    because have to look for moneeyyyyy.

  • love this game...so much fun